THE SALjNION AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
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between two rocky points about 25 feet apart, is a barricade of more recent build, with 
portions of the central slats removed, probably by the action of the stream. It is 
constructed in the usual manner, with the top log about 5 feet above the surface of the 
water. The bottom, from the liigh \vater mark to this point, is composed of fine gravel, 
continues coarser for half a mile, and is then rocky, with rapids and low falls, to the lake. 
The lake is 
about 10 feet 
above high wa- 
ter, about 
miles long, and 
from one fourth 
to one-half of a 
mile wide, and 
has a general 
northwest and 
southeast direc- 
tion. The shores 
are heav^ily 
wooded and 
rocky, and the 
bottom around 
the mouth of the 
outlet is gravel- 
ly. On the south- 
ern side, near 
the outlet, a 
grassy slough, 
about three- 
eighths of a mile 
long and 50 yards wide, makes out from the lake. There were no means to make a 
thorough examination of the lake, but from the outlet the shore at the head looked 
as if it were grassy at the edge, with two streams entering, the main one coming from 
the southwest. 
The following is the record of the salmon catch of this stream from 1892 to 1897, 
both inclusive : 
Tear. 
Eeilflsh. 
Cohoes. 
Humpbacks. 
Dates. 
Number. 
Dates. 
Number. 
Dates. 
Number. 
1892 
1893 
1894 
1895 
July 15 to Aug. 23 ... 
July 25 to Aug. 30 . . . 
July 13 to Aug. 23 . . . 
16. 795 
10, 265 
18, 739 
27, 950 
29, 775 
23, 281 
Aug. 5 to Aug. 23 
Aug. 17 to Aug. 30... 
Aug. 3 to Aug. 23 
191 
324 
362 
Lo 
July 30 to Aug. 12 . . 
6, 365 
1896 
1897 
July 10 to Aug. 31 . .. 
July 21 to Sept. 2 
Sept. 5 to Sept. 9 
July 21 to Sept. 2 
July 27 to Aug. 21 . . 
July 21 to Aug. 28 .. 
5, 446 
. 47,500 
It seems that about 20,000 redfish can be taken from this stream annually. Until 
1896 it suijplied Metlakahtla exclusively ; but Loring received 2,528 redfish in that 
year and 7,137 redfish, 250 cohoes, and 29,500 humpbacks in 1897. 
There are no houses on Moira Sound having permanent occupants, and as no one 
could be found in the locality our work was somewhat retarded, the information pre- 
